BOOKS DICTATORSHIP

 

Acemoglu, Daron, James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy, Cambridge University Press, 2009

 

Applebaum, Anne, Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World, Vintage, 2025

 

Applebaum Anne, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Vintage, 2021

 

Arendt, Hannah, Anne Applebaum, The Origins of Totalitarianism: With a New Introduction by Anne Applebaum, Mariner Books Classics, 2024

 

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, Strongmen: How They Rise, Why They Succeed, How They Fall, Profile Books, 2021

 

Ben-Ghiat, Ruth, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, W. W. Norton & Company, 2021

 

Cawthorne, Nigel, Tyrants History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators, Arcturus Publishing, 2005

 

Chang, Jung, Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story, Anchor, 2006

 

Cooley, Alexander A. Ph.D., John Heathershaw, Dictators Without Borders: Power and Money in Central Asia, Yale University Press, 2019

 

Dale, Iain, The Dictators: 64 Dictators, 64 Authors, 64 Warnings from History, Hodder & Stoughton, 2024

 

Davis, Kenneth C., Strongman: The Rise of Five Dictators and the Fall of Democracy, Square Fish, 2022

 

de Guillaume, André, How to Rule the World: A Handbook for the Aspiring Dictator, Chicago Review Press, 2005

 

de Mesquita, Bruce Bueno, Alastair Smith, The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics, PublicAffairs, 2022

 

Demick, Barbara, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, Random House, 2010

 

Diamond, Larry (Editor), Marc F. Plattner (Editor), Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy (A Journal of Democracy Book), Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016

 

Dickson, Bruce J., The Dictator's Dilemma: The Chinese Communist Party's Strategy for Survival, Oxford University Press, 2018

 

Dikotter, Frank, Dictators, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2020

 

Dikötter, Frank, How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022

 

Dikötter, Frank, Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62, Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2018

 

Elwood, Phil, All the Worst Humans: How I Made News for Dictators, Tycoons, and Politicians, Holt Paperbacks, 2025

 

Fifield, Anna, The Great Successor, PublicAffairs, 2020

 

Fraenkel, Ernst, Jens Meierhenrich, The Dual State: A Contribution to the Theory of Dictatorship, Oxford University Press, 2017

 

Geddes, Barbara, Joseph Wright, Erica Frantz, How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse, Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Geddes, Barbara, Joseph Wright, How Dictatorships Work: Power, Personalization, and Collapse, Cambridge University Press, 2018

 

Greenblatt, Stephen, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics, W. W. Norton & Company, 2019

 

Greitens, Sheena Chestnut, Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics), Cambridge University Press, 2016

 

Heilbrunn, Jacob, America Last: The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators, Liveright, 2024

 

Jackson, C.T., So You Want To Be A Dictator: A Supreme Leadership Guide For The Aspiring Authoritarian, C.T. Jackson, 2022

 

Kenyon, Paul, Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa, Head of Zeus, 2019

 

Khlevniuk, Oleg, Nora Seligman Favorov, Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator, Yale University Press, 2017

 

Klaas, Brian, David Talbot, The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy, Hot Books, 2017

 

Klaas, Brian, The Despot's Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy, Oxford University Press, 2018

 

Kotkin, Stephen, Stalin: Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928, Penguin Books, 2015

 

Kotkin, Stephen, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, Penguin Books, 2018

 

Lankov, Andrei, The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2014

 

Larres, Klaus (Editor), Dictators and Autocrats, Routledge, 2021

 

Lee, Stephen J., European Dictatorships 1918–1945, Routledge, 2016

 

Levitsky, Steven, Daniel Ziblatt, How Democracies Die, Crown, 2019

 

Levitsky, Steven, Lucan A. Way, Competitive Authoritarianism: Hybrid Regimes after the Cold War (Problems of International Politics), Cambridge University Press, 2010

 

Levitsky, Steven, Lucan Way, Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism, Princeton University Press, 2024

 

Lithgow, John, Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, 2), Chronicle Prism, 2020

 

Luttwak, Edward N., Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, Revised Edition, Harvard University Press, 2016

 

Meng, Anne, Constraining Dictatorship (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions), Cambridge University Press, 2020

 

Mettler, Suzanne, Four Threats, Griffin, 2021

 

Montefiore, Simon Sebag, Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar, Vintage, 2005

 

Moore, Barrington, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World, Beacon Press, 1993

 

Myers, Steven Lee, The New Tsar, Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2016

 

O’Donnell, Guillermo. Philippe C. Schmitter, Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013

 

O'Neill, Bill, Crazy Stuff Dictators Do: Insane But True Stories You Won't Believe Actually Happened, LAK Publishing, 2020

 

Overy, Richard Ph.D., The Dictators: Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006

 

Paxton, Robert O., The Anatomy of Fascism, Vintage, 2005

 

Payne, Stanley G., Jesús Palacios, Franco: A Personal and Political Biography, University of Wisconsin Press, 2018

 

Payne, Stanley G., The Franco Regime, 1936–1975, University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

 

Preston, Paul, Franco : A Biography, Fontana Press, 2011

 

Ressa, Maria, How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future, Harper Perennial, 2023

 

Ringen, Stein, The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century, Hong Kong University Press, 2016

 

Ryback, Timothy W., Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power, Vintage, 2025

 

Sebestyen, Victor, Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror, Vintage, 2018

 

Shirer, William L., Ron Rosenbaum (Introduciton), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, Simon & Schuster, 2011

 

Snyder, Timothy, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, Crown, 2017

 

Snyder, Timothy, The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, Crown, 2019

 

Stafford, Terry, Deadly Dictators: Masterminds of 20th Century Genocides, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

 

Stanley, Jason, Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future, Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2024

 

Stanley, Jason, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, Random House Publishing Group, 2020

 

Stent, Angela, Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest, Twelve, 2023

 

Svolik, Milan W., The Politics of Authoritarian Rule (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics), Cambridge University Press, 2012

 

Szablowski, Witold, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks, Penguin Books, 2020

 

Torigian, Joseph, The Party's Interests Come First: The Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping (Stanford–Hoover Series on Authoritarianism), Stanford University Press, 2025

 

Treisman, Daniel, Sergei Guriev, Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century, Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Tremlett, Giles, Ghosts of Spain: Travels Through Spain and Its Silent Past, Bloomsbury USA, 2008

 

Trudeau, G. B., Day One Dictator: More Doonesbury in the Time of Trumpism, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2024

 

Ullrich, Volker, Jefferson Chase (Translator), Hitler: Ascent: 1889-1939, Vintage, 2017

 

Ullrich, Volker, Jefferson Chase (Translator), Hitler: Downfall: 1939-1945, Vintage, 2021

 

Wood, Randall, Carmine DeLuca, Dictator's Handbook: A Practical Manual for the Aspiring Tyrant, Gull Pond Books, 2012

 



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